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Nick Penniman is the editor of TomPaine.com and a program director at the Campaign For America's Future. He was formerly an associate editor of The American Prospect magazine and director of Moving Ideas, a network of leading liberal organizations. Before that, he directed the Alliance for Democracy and worked as editor of a weekly newspaper in Boston, Mass.